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How accurate is the Stanford Prison Experiment movie?
There were no scenes that had to be put in for the drama. If anything, they left out a lot of what I consider powerful scenes, which they actually had in and it just went too long so they had to cut it out. I’d say it’s roughly 90 percent accurate.
Has the Stanford Prison Experiment been debunked?
The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment may have been thoroughly debunked, but its influence lives on in facile TED talks and interpretations of science that purport to deliver insights into the human condition.
Does the Stanford Prison Experiment have internal validity?
P: One strength of Zimbardo’s research is that it has high internal validity. E: For example, Zimbardo had high control over several variables, including the selection of participants. Zimbardo was able to screen for emotionally stable individuals and randomly assign them to the roles of guards and prisoners.
Can the results of the Stanford Prison Experiment be generalized?
Because the guards and prisoners were playing a role, their behavior may not be influenced by the same factors which affect behavior in real life. This means the study’s findings cannot be reasonably generalized to real life, such as prison settings.
Where is Dave Eshelman now?
The son of a Stanford engineering professor, Eshelman was a student at Chapman University at the time of the experiment. He was the prison’s most abusive guard, patterning himself after the sadistic prison warden (portrayed by Strother Martin) in the movie Cool Hand Luke. Today he owns a mortgage business in Saratoga.
What happened to prisoner 8612 after the experiment?
Realizing that something was really wrong with Doug, Zimbardo decided to let him leave the experiment. In order to keep up with the experiment and to make it more real for the participants, he told the rest of the inmates that Prisoner #8612 had been shipped off to a maximum security prison.
Why did Aksionov think of killing himself?
Aksionov thought of killing himself because he remembered all those harsh situations which he had faced in his life without committing any crime. He remembered his torture, the people around him while he was in chains, the convicts, twenty-six years of imprisonment, his premature old age etc.